ABSTRACT

The pregenital stages are all stimulated, each in a varying degree according to the individual. Some people develop intense desires to bite and to put parts of the body of their partner inside their mouths, and such impulses cannot always be completely satisfied. As orgasm approaches, the libidinal desire for penetration becomes more intense and, partly on its own account and partly on account of the sadistic elements, goes on to, or turns into a tendency to fuse as well as to tear apart, to pierce and get deep into the woman's body. The variety of delicate tactile sensations that the contact of the sexual organs provides is utilised by some people to express fantasies of confusion, and of fusion, of sexual parts. Weiss has pointed out that in the heterosexual choice the man projects his own femininity onto the woman, and the woman her masculinity onto the man, in such a way that both satisfy their bisexual tendencies.